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Oceanview beach
replenishment with the U.S.

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Army Corps of Engineers on

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a one hundred twenty million dollar grant
to mitigate flooding in the Ohio Creek

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Watershed just two examples of how
Norfolk has established itself as an

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international leader in building urban
resilience that forward thinking has not

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gone unnoticed as NATO chose Norfolk to
host its first ever interdependency in

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resilience conference the uniqueness of the
competency in the capacity to have this

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right here in Norfolk is on match
anywhere in the world for two days

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representatives from thirty four nations
and thirty private sector agencies

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gathered at the main hotel and
conference center in downtown to develop

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a blueprint to improve the understanding
of how military business and civil sectors

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are dependent on each other and how they
must work together to reduce risk and

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increase readiness in an ever changing
world if we experience any type of failure

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the manmade or natural disaster in our
city it disrupts our way of life it also

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will have

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a. Impact on our military and NATO
there's not many cities that can call

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me to the international
organization the U.S.

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Navy these big meet our boat we
have here on the undersea T.

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Who has

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a huge knowledge of the resilience and
the university who is working the D.C.U.

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As well so what we can build here is

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a lobotomy focus unions because we have
so many competency so to give For more go

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to N F K resilient city org.